Lot 32692 – 1948 The Robert Wilcock Collection of the London Games

The Robert Wilcock Collection The following description represents a lifetime of collecting this most difficult of Games which was nicknamed at the time the “Austerity Games” due to the rationing from WWII Exhibition collection neatly and knowledgeably written up on more than 120 album pages and on stockpages, showing strength in First Day Covers, cancels with some better machine, skeleton and Olympic village cancels, plus array of other postmarks including Mobile Post Offices etc., Harrison presentation packs and cards, Olympic sets in mint multiples, plus ovpts from Bahrain, Kuwait, Morocco Agencies, Muscat, Tangier, postal stationery, useful press photographs, postcards of Wembley stadium, BBC Olympic centre, plus a fine array of other items related to the Torch Relay with cards and covers, Organising Commitee stationery, also issues of other countries and a fine range of special Finish roller cancels an amazing assembly and a wonderful opportunity to acquire a valuable and rare assembly of this most difficult of Games